Curiosity’s five-year journey across Mars — in one stunning photo
After 1,856 Martian days among blue sunsets, sand dunes and small, lumpy moons, the Mars rover Curiosity sat on the ridge of an ancient lake bed and looked back on...
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A man left delusional love odes to Lana Del Rey – then tried to kidnap her, police say
A fan showed up Friday evening outside Lana Del Rey's pop concert in Orlando, Florida, with a ticket, a knife and a plan to abduct her, police said.
Paul Ryan celebrated the tax cut with a tweet about a secretary saving $1.50 a week
Never mind all the Democrats who call the GOP's tax bill a deficit-busting giveaway to the rich; House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has been enthusiastically promoting it as a middle-class...
California man shoots his mom in the head during tantrum over video games, police say
A 28-year-old man playing a video game in his bedroom threw a fit, broke his headset, then picked up a gun and killed his mother, according to police in Ceres,...
At least 5 dead as mudslides wipe away homes in fire-ravaged California
At least five people are dead in Southern California, where houses have been swept away and thousands have fled as a rainstorm brings floods and mudslides to the scorched landscape.
Disbelief after “picturesque” New Jersey family is massacred on New Year’s Eve
In the last hour of 2017, in a brick duplex with a plastic snowman out front, a 16-year-old boy from what seemed to be a happy family picked up a...
A small bird in Detroit managed to take over a Delta flight
On late Saturday morning, a bird flew out of the cold Detroit sky, across an airfield and into the cockpit of a jetliner bound south for Atlanta.
“A gift-wrapped package of poo”: Why a man left a box of manure for Steven Mnuchin
It was one of those gag cards you can buy in a drugstore.
Three Florida men who laughed as they dragged a shark behind a motorboat could go to prison
Three Florida men were arrested Tuesday and accused of making Snapchat videos in which a shark is shot with a revolver, then tied to the back of a motorboat and...
Ninth-grader captured trying to cross into Canada after grandmother was found in Florida backyard grave
Eric Mott returned home to Florida from vacation on Wednesday, expecting his mother and son to pick him up at the airport. When they did not appear, the father tried...